Dan Herbert
@danherb10.bsky.social
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Prehistory. Normans. Recently Vikings. New Model Army. Asterix. Old Gods. Arsenal. Corinthian Casuals.
University Library Buildings Development Manager.
Neurodivergent. Cursed by MECFS.
#MDANT
Prehistory. Normans. Recently Vikings. New Model Army. Asterix. Old Gods. Arsenal. Corinthian Casuals.
University Library Buildings Development Manager.
Neurodivergent. Cursed by MECFS.
#MDANT
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Because Trump's a corrupt facist thief who's trying to deflect people's attention away from the fact he's also a paedophile. Now ask me a difficult one.
Why has US attacked Caracas and captured Venezuela’s president?
Trump’s unprecedented capture of Nicolás Maduro follows months of military campaign and years of strained relationship
www.theguardian.com
January 3, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Because Trump's a corrupt facist thief who's trying to deflect people's attention away from the fact he's also a paedophile. Now ask me a difficult one.
I've wanted to see the crypt of Oxford Castle for a very long time.
I crossed it off the list today and it didn't disappoint
#Romanesque
I crossed it off the list today and it didn't disappoint
#Romanesque
January 3, 2026 at 8:27 PM
I've wanted to see the crypt of Oxford Castle for a very long time.
I crossed it off the list today and it didn't disappoint
#Romanesque
I crossed it off the list today and it didn't disappoint
#Romanesque
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Also known later on as Norman Wisdom stairs……
January 3, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Also known later on as Norman Wisdom stairs……
Historical Bollocks What I Have Heard.
Today on the Oxford Castle tour we were regaled with stories of "Norman Trip Stairs". I could absolutely visualise the blood vessels bursting in @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social forehead
Today on the Oxford Castle tour we were regaled with stories of "Norman Trip Stairs". I could absolutely visualise the blood vessels bursting in @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social forehead
January 3, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Historical Bollocks What I Have Heard.
Today on the Oxford Castle tour we were regaled with stories of "Norman Trip Stairs". I could absolutely visualise the blood vessels bursting in @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social forehead
Today on the Oxford Castle tour we were regaled with stories of "Norman Trip Stairs". I could absolutely visualise the blood vessels bursting in @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social forehead
Current Status: Oxford Castle
@durotrigesdig.bsky.social
@durotrigesdig.bsky.social
January 3, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Current Status: Oxford Castle
@durotrigesdig.bsky.social
@durotrigesdig.bsky.social
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A moonlit snowy backlane in mid Wales this morning ❄️❄️
January 3, 2026 at 8:03 AM
A moonlit snowy backlane in mid Wales this morning ❄️❄️
Current Status: Oxford bound
January 3, 2026 at 8:29 AM
Current Status: Oxford bound
Beautiful.
Year of the green paths is definitely needed
Year of the green paths is definitely needed
The land has been year-walked. The future has been met in the lanes and ways. The cunning folk have conferred. On the doors of The Raven, The Woodwose's Crown and all the other pubs they use, the proclamation has gone up: 'This is the YEAR OF THE GREEN PATHS.'
January 1, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Beautiful.
Year of the green paths is definitely needed
Year of the green paths is definitely needed
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Glad to hear of this digitization project/collection - better late than never! - but be warned, the website is excellent and leaving it will be a struggle!
I thought you might like this:
Large Irish Folklore Collection
National Folklore Collection UCD Digitization Project
765,821 manuscript pages, 13,899 photographs and 329 hours of audio are available here
www.duchas.ie/en
Large Irish Folklore Collection
National Folklore Collection UCD Digitization Project
765,821 manuscript pages, 13,899 photographs and 329 hours of audio are available here
www.duchas.ie/en
dúchas.ie
A project to digitize the Irish National Folklore Collection, one of the largest folklore collections in the world
www.duchas.ie
January 1, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Glad to hear of this digitization project/collection - better late than never! - but be warned, the website is excellent and leaving it will be a struggle!
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The Big Book of Torcs is 6 years old! 🎉
www.bigbookoftorcs.com 🧵
In total, since January 2020, it's had 59,979 views from 34,504 people in 140 countries (only c.50% are from the UK) ...and these numbers are increasing every year!
#Archaeology 🏺
www.bigbookoftorcs.com 🧵
In total, since January 2020, it's had 59,979 views from 34,504 people in 140 countries (only c.50% are from the UK) ...and these numbers are increasing every year!
#Archaeology 🏺
January 1, 2026 at 9:25 AM
The Big Book of Torcs is 6 years old! 🎉
www.bigbookoftorcs.com 🧵
In total, since January 2020, it's had 59,979 views from 34,504 people in 140 countries (only c.50% are from the UK) ...and these numbers are increasing every year!
#Archaeology 🏺
www.bigbookoftorcs.com 🧵
In total, since January 2020, it's had 59,979 views from 34,504 people in 140 countries (only c.50% are from the UK) ...and these numbers are increasing every year!
#Archaeology 🏺
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Happy New Year!
I have just one resolution - finish the new book and meet my deadline without blubbing and begging for an extension.
Excited for more research trips on the trail of these fellows!
Picture by the incomparable Ron Embleton.
I have just one resolution - finish the new book and meet my deadline without blubbing and begging for an extension.
Excited for more research trips on the trail of these fellows!
Picture by the incomparable Ron Embleton.
January 1, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Happy New Year!
I have just one resolution - finish the new book and meet my deadline without blubbing and begging for an extension.
Excited for more research trips on the trail of these fellows!
Picture by the incomparable Ron Embleton.
I have just one resolution - finish the new book and meet my deadline without blubbing and begging for an extension.
Excited for more research trips on the trail of these fellows!
Picture by the incomparable Ron Embleton.
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Happy New Year! At midnight on Hogmanay, the Watch Stone will move from its position guarding the approach to the Ness of Brodgar to take a drink from Stenness loch. (Or so it is said!) Wishing you all a wonderful 2026, filled with folklore, fun and many a hike to an ancient site 💚🪨🎉
December 31, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Happy New Year! At midnight on Hogmanay, the Watch Stone will move from its position guarding the approach to the Ness of Brodgar to take a drink from Stenness loch. (Or so it is said!) Wishing you all a wonderful 2026, filled with folklore, fun and many a hike to an ancient site 💚🪨🎉
Happy 2026.
May your year be full of blessings, health, and happiness.
May your year be full of blessings, health, and happiness.
January 1, 2026 at 9:12 AM
Happy 2026.
May your year be full of blessings, health, and happiness.
May your year be full of blessings, health, and happiness.
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Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
January 1, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
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Here's a New Year's Resolution you might be able to keep, visit your library and borrow more books!
#NewYears #Resolutions #Libraries #BookSky #Books
#NewYears #Resolutions #Libraries #BookSky #Books
January 1, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Here's a New Year's Resolution you might be able to keep, visit your library and borrow more books!
#NewYears #Resolutions #Libraries #BookSky #Books
#NewYears #Resolutions #Libraries #BookSky #Books
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On this day 1660: first entry of Samuel Pepys’ diary.
January 1, 2026 at 8:19 AM
On this day 1660: first entry of Samuel Pepys’ diary.
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theconversation.com/how-celtic-l...
Interesting perspective on how the recently-reported drive to document early evidence of celtic languages in Britain was in part inspired by new archaeogenetic evidence for Late Bronze Age/Iron Age migrations to Britain.
theconversation.com/how-celtic-l...
Interesting perspective on how the recently-reported drive to document early evidence of celtic languages in Britain was in part inspired by new archaeogenetic evidence for Late Bronze Age/Iron Age migrations to Britain.
Redirecting...
www.facebook.com
January 1, 2026 at 8:03 AM
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theconversation.com/how-celtic-l...
Interesting perspective on how the recently-reported drive to document early evidence of celtic languages in Britain was in part inspired by new archaeogenetic evidence for Late Bronze Age/Iron Age migrations to Britain.
theconversation.com/how-celtic-l...
Interesting perspective on how the recently-reported drive to document early evidence of celtic languages in Britain was in part inspired by new archaeogenetic evidence for Late Bronze Age/Iron Age migrations to Britain.
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One for @tessmachling.bsky.social (if not already seen) - £15k paid to the detectorist who found this rare David I coin.
Earliest coin minted in Scotland saved for the nation after 900 years
The medieval David I silver coin, discovered in a wooded area in Midlothian, has been dated to the second half of the 1130s.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Random acts of senseless beauty 🖤
December 31, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Random acts of senseless beauty 🖤
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The sun setting on the last day of the old year, a new one starts tomorrow, may it bring health and happiness to all
December 31, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The sun setting on the last day of the old year, a new one starts tomorrow, may it bring health and happiness to all
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Stupendous stuff from
@samleggs22.bsky.social - meta analysis of human strontium and oxygen stable isotope data from southern Britain in 2nd half of 1st Millennium AD. Too rich to summarise but if your are into complex early medieval mobility, this one’s for you.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@samleggs22.bsky.social - meta analysis of human strontium and oxygen stable isotope data from southern Britain in 2nd half of 1st Millennium AD. Too rich to summarise but if your are into complex early medieval mobility, this one’s for you.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Large-Scale Isotopic Data Reveal Gendered Migration into Early Medieval England c ad 400–1100
THIS STUDY PRESENTS THE RESULTS of a large-scale isotopic meta-analysis of early medieval England which reveals migration patterns from c ad 400–1100. These patterns are gendered, regionally distin...
www.tandfonline.com
December 31, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Stupendous stuff from
@samleggs22.bsky.social - meta analysis of human strontium and oxygen stable isotope data from southern Britain in 2nd half of 1st Millennium AD. Too rich to summarise but if your are into complex early medieval mobility, this one’s for you.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@samleggs22.bsky.social - meta analysis of human strontium and oxygen stable isotope data from southern Britain in 2nd half of 1st Millennium AD. Too rich to summarise but if your are into complex early medieval mobility, this one’s for you.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Here are the New Year's resolutions we plan to break in the next week or so:
Be nicer to #CuratorRob 🙄
Post about Fishbourne Roman Palace from time to time 🫡
Fewer typos 😳
Get over the whole "Villa" thing 🧐
Get engaged (we're looking at you, Merchy) 😍
Be nicer to #CuratorRob 🙄
Post about Fishbourne Roman Palace from time to time 🫡
Fewer typos 😳
Get over the whole "Villa" thing 🧐
Get engaged (we're looking at you, Merchy) 😍
December 31, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Here are the New Year's resolutions we plan to break in the next week or so:
Be nicer to #CuratorRob 🙄
Post about Fishbourne Roman Palace from time to time 🫡
Fewer typos 😳
Get over the whole "Villa" thing 🧐
Get engaged (we're looking at you, Merchy) 😍
Be nicer to #CuratorRob 🙄
Post about Fishbourne Roman Palace from time to time 🫡
Fewer typos 😳
Get over the whole "Villa" thing 🧐
Get engaged (we're looking at you, Merchy) 😍
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This should have been #HillfortsWednesday (plural)
Today's obviously the last #HillfortWednesday of the year, so here's a couple of pics from yesterday's walk around the impressive Iron Age earthworks of Woodbury Castle
December 31, 2025 at 11:58 AM
This should have been #HillfortsWednesday (plural)